{"product_id":"voice-of-the-fish-by-lars-horn","title":"Voice of the Fish by Lars Horn","description":"\u003cp\u003eLars Horn's Voice of the Fish, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, is a kaleidoscopic, hallucinatory memoir that explores the trans experience through meditations upon aquatic life and mythology, set against the backdrop of travels in Russia and a debilitating injury that left Horn temporarily unable to speak, read and write. In their adept hands, these poignant, allusive shards take shape as a unified whole: short vignettes about fish, reliquaries and antiquities serve as interludes between - and subtle reflections upon - longer memories of their life, knitting together a sinuous, wave-like form that flows across the book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHorn swims through a range of subjects; across marine history, theology, questions of the body and gender, sexuality, transmasculinity and illness. From their childhood modelling for their mother's art installations - immersed in a bath with dead squid; encased in a full-body plaster cast - to their travels before they were out as trans, these beguiling fragments are linked by a desire to interrogate the physical, and to identify the current beneath. Horn re-examines presumptions about the body, privileging instead ways of seeing and being that resist binaries, ways that falter, fracture, mutate.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSensuous and immersive, Voice of the Fish is unique: a masterful and moving achievement.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'This book left me stunned. Breathtaking in its scope and generosity . . \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. We are in the midst of a transcendent talent.' Maaza Mengiste, author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted The Shadow King \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Rapturous . . \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. [Horn] is the mystic's David Attenborough.' New York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePaperback \/ 240 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Bookish Type","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43250119770327,"sku":"","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/0891\/0933\/products\/9781804440179.jpg?v=1662669947","url":"https:\/\/thebookishtype.pro\/products\/voice-of-the-fish-by-lars-horn","provider":"The Bookish Type","version":"1.0","type":"link"}